-"We’re currently working on refining the bits of plastic and assembling electronics for updates to the product we intend to manufacture for you. The latest firmware is ready to begin testing, along with the PCBs, wire harnesses, lasers, switches, and joysticks. We hope to have some live shots with all the refinements to show you soon! "

Since our last update, we’ve made great progress refining our build process and testing the loading process for the main board’s Atmel SAM3S microcontroller. We’ll continue working on features as soon as we have our build, test and load processes down cold.

We’ve also made great progress on plastic refinements and working towards having a new set of production prototype plastics ready to print and test.

And our manufacturing partners are beginning work on the assembly of pre-production main and finger boards.

All work at this point is going towards having a small quantity of pre-production King’s Assembly units ready for testing by the early backers. Both the software development and plastic refinement processes are time consuming. We’re not ready to estimate of when these will be ready to ship. But, rest assured, we’re working diligently to that goal and really looking forward to our early backer’s feedback on the test units.

Ah, okay I concede, it has been quite some time since I've used a mouse to play any first person game. ( trackball! )

That said, on their kickstarter (page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70308014/kings-assembly-a-computer-mouse-full-of-awesome) under the details of the mouse cursor we find your answer.

"A key can be mapped such that either toggling it or holding it down disables the mouse optical sensor input, allowing you to reposition the device without moving the mouse cursor (handy for strafing in games, where normally you might lift the mouse up and move it)"

"Combine alternating mouse disabling (using the mouse-disabling key) with opposing mouse movements to create perpetual mouse cursor movement in any direction (yes this takes a minute to sink in, but it's a very exciting feature and only takes a minute of practice to get right)"